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Dead Secret cover art

Dead Secret

Robot Invader · 2016-03-28

SteamPlayStation Store

AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 29, 2015 (Android), Mar 28, 2016 (Mac), TBD (Oculus Rift), Mar 28, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 24, 2018 (PlayStation 4), TBD (PlayStation VR)

Dead Secret is a first-person horror mystery set in rural Kansas in 1965. A reclusive professor is dead and it’s up to you to crack the case before you become the next victim. Investigate the murder and explore the story Time Magazine called “captivating” and “deeply creepy” .

0
playing now
81%
positive of 598 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (6 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Dead Secret is a first-person horror mystery game. It was created by Robot Invader and released on 29 October 2015. The game is set in 1965. The story line revolves around the murder of Harris Bullard.

Health check

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  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 38% of 11,424 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 15k–36k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 598 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.00 at Fanatical (2020-11-19) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$1.002016-03-282026-07-092016-03-28 — best price $13.492016-07-04 — best price $14.992016-10-28 — best price $7.492016-11-29 — best price $14.992017-01-12 — best price $7.492017-04-10 — best price $14.992017-10-26 — best price $11.242017-11-28 — best price $14.992018-02-08 — best price $5.002018-07-05 — best price $14.992018-11-01 — best price $14.992019-02-04 — best price $7.492019-07-10 — best price $14.992020-01-23 — best price $7.492020-03-09 — best price $14.992020-04-07 — best price $13.392020-05-11 — best price $14.992020-11-19 — best price $1.002022-11-01 — best price $14.992023-06-29 — best price $5.992023-11-02 — best price $14.992023-12-21 — best price $7.492024-03-21 — best price $14.992024-06-27 — best price $6.742024-11-04 — best price $14.992024-12-19 — best price $7.492025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-09-29 — best price $5.992026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-06-25 — best price $5.992026-07-09 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportTracked Controller SupportVR SupportedFamily Sharing

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)80837%5
PS4 (PlayStation)23276%5
PS4 (PlayStation)13179%5

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

VRDarkIndieHorrorPuzzleMysteryAdventureStory RichAtmosphericExploration

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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